Saturday, April 14thCoffee: 8AMSymposium Program: 9AM to 4PMA speaker schedule will appear here when the program is finalized.Lunch (Panera) will be provided.6:15PM – Macayo’s Mexican Buffet ($20/person) with silent auction of donated items.Featured Speaker: TBDDealers may also sell after the Saturday dinner

Friday, March 31st2PM – 4PM – Open house at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum mineral vault.Note: You must RSVP by email to Anna Domitrovic by March 24th if you want to attend this event.

5PM to ~10PM – Mineral Sale (Open to Public)There will be a mineral sale at the Holiday Inn Express (8373 North Cracker Barrel, Tucson, AZ 85743) with dealers selling from rooms. There will also be a portable XRF available for analyzing gold and other minerals for their chemistry and a micro-mineral area as well.

2014 Symposium Program 9:00-9:40 - Geobacter in Arizona - Brian Beck9:40-10:20 - Crystallized Gypsum Deposits of the San Pedro River Basin - Barbara Muntyan10:50-11:30 - Geodes, Septarians and Thunder Eggs, Their Structure and Origin - Dick Zimmerman11:30-12:10 - A Brief History of Mineral Magazines of the World - Gunther Neumeier1:30-2:10 - Arizona's Gold and Silver Mining, Why More Specimens Were Not Saved or Why We Should Be Thankful for the Ones that Were - Les Presmyk2:10-2:50 - Fingerprinting origins of placer gold from Vulture and Rich Hill - Trica Reed and Chelsea Sheets-Harris3:20-4:00 - Revisiting the Eastern Flanks of the Santa Rita Mountains, Greaterville and Rosemont, Pima County - Anna Domitrovic4:00-4:20 - New Ideas on the Origin of Oil and Real Diamonds: A Herkimer Quartz Diamond and Diamondoid Case History from New York - Stan Keith

Twenty Two Year Speaker Index for Minerals of Arizona SymposiumThis index is for the first twenty two years of the Minerals of Arizona Symposium and includes the current year (2014).For the 2001 Symposium on Arizona type localities, the titles are given as Type Localities followed by the locality name.Multiple authors are listed with the speaker first followed by the names of the other authors.

Coggins, Mason(1994) History of Gold Mining in Arizona(1995) The Flagg Photograph Collection

Connel, Charlie(2004) Restoration of the Swallow Mine Stamp Mill

Davis, Ed(2000) The Four Peaks Amethyst Mine

DeMark, Ramon(2003) Minerals of the Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico

Dodd, Darrel(1999) Myths and Facts about Metals

Domitrovic, Anna(1993) Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mineral Collection(1994) Wulfenite: a Distinguished Arizona Mineral(1995) Arizona Psuedomorphs(1996) The Castle Dome District(1997) The Care and Feeding of a Mineral Collection(1998) Taking Care of the Little Things – the Micromount Collection at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum(1999) A Geological Traverse of the Baja Peninsula, Mexico(2000) Mines and Minerals of the Patagonia Mountains and Santa Cruz County, Arizona(2001) Type Localities – Bisbee(2002) Ten More Years of Collecting in the Arizona Sonoran Desert(2003) A look at the Minerals and Mines of Helvetia, Pima County(2004) Minerals of the Silver Bell Mine, Pima County, Part 1(2005) Richard Bideaux’s Mineral Collection(2006) Twenty-eight years at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum(2007) Mineral Park District, Mohave County(2008) Mines and Minerals of the Pima Mining District, Pima County, Arizona(2009) Mines and Minerals of the Turquoise District (Courtland, Gleeson), Cochise County, Arizona(2010) The Eureka Mining District and Vicinity (T13.5-15.5N, R9W)(2011) Mines and Minerals of the Amole District, Tucson Mountains, Pima County(2012) Celebrating 40 years of Mineralogy at the Sonora Desert Museum(2013) Mineralogy along Route 66 in Northern Arizona(2014) Revisiting the Eastern Flanks of the Santa Rita Mountains, Greaterville and Rosemont, Pima County

Gibbs, Ron(1994) Collecting Micro-minerals in the Big Lue Mountains, Greenlee County, Arizona(2003) A New Creasyite Locality in Arizona?(2004) Minerals of the Silver Bell Mine, Pima County –Part 2(2011) Microminerals of the Evening Star mine

Gibbs, Ron and Turzi, Urban(2007) Minerals in the Mirolitic Cavities of the Belmont Mountains, Maricopa County

Presmyk, Les(1994) History and Minerals of the Pioneer Mining District(1995) Arizona Silver(1996) Arizona Calcite(1997) The Red Cloud Mine: an Update(1998) Diamond Point, a Case History in Mining Mineral Specimens(1999) History and Minerals of the Old Dominion Mine, Globe, Arizona(2000) Mines and Minerals of the Globe-Miami Area of Arizona(2001) Type Localities – Grand Reef Mine(2002) Specimens Added to the Foundation Collections in Recent Years(2003) Twenty-five years of Collecting at Morenci, Arizona(2004) Bisbee – Queen of the Copper Camps(2006) “You might be a mineral collector if …………… .”(2008) The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona(2009) Mineral preparation and cleaning – 101(2010) Arizona’s Mineral Heritage – a new book project(2012) 100 years of Statehood, 50 years of Collecting Arizona(2013) Arizona’s Fabulous Sulfates(2014) Arizona’s Gold and Silver Mining Specimens

Presmyk, Les and Raymond Grant(2005) Rhodochrosite and other manganese minerals in Arizona

Rasmussen, Jan(2008) Vision for the Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum(2009) Wulfenite in Arizona(2012) Mines and Minerals of the Tombstone Area, Arizona(2013) Formation of Arizona Minerals through Geologic Time